New to the Web?Here are some tips on moving around in a website that will help you quickly pass your World Wide Web "driver's test." If you already know how to scroll a web page, click a hyperlink, and fill out a cyberform, then you don't need to be here. Go back to our main menu and enjoy. Otherwise, you've arrived here, so you seem to know that your mouse is the "steering wheel" and the mouse button is the "gas pedal" for navigating through the web. (If your mouse has two buttons, the left one is all you'll need to move around on our website.) Here are a few more essentials. TIP #1: Scrolling around in your browser's window. For web pages that are longer (up-and-down) than your browser's viewable area a scroll bar will appear along the right margin of your screen. This is a tall, skinny, light-gray column or "bar" (see it to your right?), with a smaller dark-gray rectangular box somewhere inside of it, and an arrow at the top and bottom. To reveal the hidden lower parts of the page click on the bottom scroll arrow, or click-and-hold on the scroll box and drag it downward and release. To navigate upward, use the top scroll arrow or drag the scroll box upward. Try it now. Scroll down to the next tip. (Another scroll bar may appear along the bottom of the browser window when a web page is wider than the viewable area.) TIP #2: Moving forward and back from page to page. Moving Forward: Some of the words on our web pages are underlined and in a different color than the rest of the text. These are hyperlinks that, when clicked on, will connect you with other parts of the web page or other pages in the website. Some pictures, or "graphic images," on the website are also hyperlinks. Move the mouse cursor over these hyperlinks and notice that the cursor symbol on the screen changes into a pointing hand. The hand simply "points" to a new location -- click on the hyperlink and you will go the location the link refers to. Try it now. the graphic hyperlink below and go to the next page . . . .  |